The geometry of systems of third-order differential equations induced by second-order regular Lagrangians

DOI10.1007/S00009-009-0020-9zbMATH Open1229.70044arXiv0705.3689OpenAlexW2134929286WikidataQ115390435 ScholiaQ115390435MaRDI QIDQ844003FDOQ844003

Authors: Ioan Bucataru, Radu Miron 

Publication date: 18 January 2010

Published in: Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A dynamical system on the total space of the fibre bundle of second order accelerations, $T^{2}M$, is defined as a third order vector field $S$ on $T^{2}M$, called semispray, which is mapped by the second order tangent structure into one of the Liouville vector field. For a regular Lagrangian of second order we prove that this semispray is uniquely determined by two associated Cartan-Poincar'e one-forms. To study the geometry of this semispray we construct a nonlinear connection, which is a Lagrangian subbundle for the presymplectic structure. Using this semispray and the associated nonlinear connection we define covariant derivatives of first and second order. With respect to this, the second order dynamical derivative of the Lagrangian metric tensor vanishes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.3689

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zbMATH Keywords

covariant derivativesemispraynonlinear connectionPoincaré-Cartan two-form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Higher-order theories for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H50)

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